The Super Mario Bros. 2 Year-Long Writing Project: Prelude

Wow, it’s been quite a while since I last wrote anything here, hasn’t it? Though I must give thanks to Tony Ponce for giving me a couple of things to run in the last couple of months, so the site doesn’t look like it’s completely dead.

The truth of the matter is twofold: I’ve been busy with stuff like Mega Visions and Nintendo Force magazines (plus spending almost the entire month of December bedridden with one ailment after another), but I’ve also not been feeling particularly motivated, either. I’ve had all sorts of stuff on one burner or another, back or otherwise, for a while now. But when it comes down to actually sitting down and writing something, I just haven’t felt it. “Why?” is the question, and I had no good answer.

After viewing the video, I of course spread the word about it. Shares, retweets, all that stuff is helpful to content creators (video, writing, or otherwise), after all. This is what I said across a pair of tweets:

Maybe for it's anniversary in 2018, I'll spend the year talking about it on PMO.

I didn’t think much of it at the time, but two replies showed interest and got me to thinking: “Maybe I could/should do this after all?”

One of the first feature articles I ever wrote for this site was about Super Mario Bros. 2, and while I said a lot there, I’ve always felt I could probably still have gone into better depth about some subjects. Plus, I hope my writing ability has improved somewhat over the last eleven or so years, so there’s that aspect of revisiting it as well.

So that’s my goal, however feeble, for this year: I’m going to try to produce at least one article per week about one of my all-time favorite games. I don’t have this planned out in any way, so I have no idea what I’m going to be talking about most of the time, which ought to make things a little more challenging and hopefully a little more interesting. I’ll likely talk about different versions of the game, its history, its characters, and whatever else I can figure out.

I said I could talk about it all day long, and then pushed it a little further, so now it’s put-up-or-shut-up time. Hopefully some of you will be willing to keep up with this year-long journey.

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For ease, here’s where you can find quick links to all of the articles written so far: